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This week Matt and Mike took a trip down memory lane to discuss, debate, and reflect on some of their biggest projects that shaped their careers as web developers. As with many tech careers, the road to becoming a web developer is anything but straightforward. In the case of Matt and Mike, their planned IT startup took a hard right turn based on the opportunities they were afforded over the years such as working for a large medical clinic under the scrutiny of strict government regulations, being caught up in Chrome OS fever as Chrome Apps landed on Windows, helping a large fast food franchise deliver important info to their franchisees, and many more! The pathway to becoming a web developer is anything but linear and the guys hope that this episode's conversations prove that there is no one single pathway to success in the web dev game. Show Notes: https://www.htmlallthethings.com/podcasts/our-biggest-projects-how-we-became-developers Thanks to Wix Studio for sponsoring this episode! Check out Wix Studio, the web platform tailored to designers, developers, and marketers via this link: https://www.wix.com/studio

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT A lot of technology companies have bolted digital signage capabilities on to their core software platform. Often, that means the end-products don't do a whole lot beyond playing out some files on a screen. I'm a bit guilty of making that assumption about Ditto, a wireless screen sharing platform that also works as a digital signage CMS. In chatting with the company that develops and markets Ditto, and now in this podcast with co-founder Andrew Gould, I've learned Ditto is much more than an add-on. Some customers get Ditto licenses for the signage functions, and then don't even use the screen mirroring. Based in Ohio, the company spent its first dozen or so years selling screen sharing into the education and workplace verticals. But it started getting a lot of requests from end-users about adding functionality that made screens useful during downtimes. They wanted to get more bang from their hardware buck. So the parent company, Squirrels, spun up the digital signage component in 2020, and Ditto is now a tandem offer. Gould concedes there are maybe some things a pure-play, enterprise-grade digital signage CMS can offer that Ditto can't, but there's an awfully big user base out there that's never going to need or use a lot of those more exotic and elaborate functions. Subscribe from wherever you pick up new podcasts. TRANSCRIPT Andrew, thank you for joining me. Can you give me a rundown of the company? Is it Squirrels, the company, or is Ditto the company or is Ditto the product?  Andrew Gould: Ditto is the product. Squirrels is the company. We founded the company in 2008, and we've been mainly focused on wireless collaboration in classrooms, and huddle spaces in higher education and then, in 2020, we expanded our Ditto offering to include digital signage and emergency alerts, which is something a lot of our K-12 customers were requesting.  So when you started the company back in 2008, was digital signage on the roadmap way back then, or is it purely one of these situations where you had the K12 people asking you about it and eventually realized okay, we should do this? Andrew Gould: Yeah, it was a situation where we were focused on the collaboration, and then in the feedback channels we had with the customers, they started asking or suggesting, It'd be really great if we could show things when we really weren't showing things. When the teachers weren't mirroring their screens and sharing things, it'd be nice if we could say, here's what today's homework is, or here's what's going on at the school or for higher ed, here's upcoming events, things like that.  So we saw it as a natural evolution of, “We're already on that screen. It makes sense to allow users to utilize that screen when it's not being used for the primary function of collaboration.”  That primary function, could you walk through how that would work in a typical scenario? Andrew Gould: Yeah, so we have an application that runs on a device connected to the screen or TV in the front of a room. Be it a projector, a flat screen, doesn't really matter. It runs on Apple TVs as well as Windows devices so there's some flexibility there of whatever device they wanna have connected to that main screen. There's just a piece of software called Ditto Receiver and that handles all of the functionality of showing what's being shared by students and teachers in the classroom. It handles displaying the digital signage and it also handles displaying critical emergency alerts, if they're fired and all of those things connect back to the cloud.  The IT staff manages that from a central cloud portal, and then it periodically checks for updated settings, digital signage, configurations, et cetera, pulls those down, and caches them locally, so if you do have a little blip in the network or the internet goes down temporarily that functionality can continue to run even if it's not connected to the internet for a moment. So, in essence, whether it's a teacher or a student or in a working environment, whether it's the person leading the meeting or somebody who's a participant, they could pull up their phone, their tablet, whatever it may be, and if they have the Ditto app, they can push their screen to the main screen in that room? Andrew Gould: Exactly, and our big focus with the collaboration part of Ditto is that device agnostic approach. So we want any kind of device that's coming into a space to be able to share, not just if you have an Apple device, it'll work to this Apple TV, or if you have a Google device that'll work to this Chromecast. We really push hard to make sure that each device that comes in, whether it's from a browser or from a native app on a platform, can connect and quickly share.  And that's important in a number of ways. A, it doesn't slow down the meeting, but it removes a lot of IT support and AV/IT support within an organization, whether it's a school or a business. Because I've been in those meetings where somebody says here, I'll just share my screen, and then 15 minutes later, it's still being sorted out. Andrew Gould: Yes, and we've all gone into those rooms that have the laminated sheet of instructions of, “If you're using this device, it's these seven steps, and if you're using this device, you have to be on this network. Then you have to do these three steps, et cetera, et cetera.” All of that goes away with Ditto which means far fewer support calls for the IT staff, and just a more pleasant experience is that we have people come into our offices, accountants, lawyers, just general non-technical people, and they're blown away at how easy and fast it is to get their content up on the screen, which is all anybody wants. We don't care about how fast or how crisp it is or how cool it looks once it's up there if it takes you 10 minutes to get it connected. So quick, fast, easy is always our guiding light as we mature the product and move it along.  On the digital signage side of this, the way it's marketed from what I can see is, it's a tandem product, as opposed to, we are a collaboration product that, oh, by the way, we can also do this. You seem to be saying, “It's a full-fledged product on its own. If you wanted, you could just use it for digital signage.” Is that a fair statement?  Andrew Gould: Oh yeah, for sure. We have customers that turn off the mirroring capabilities and they just use it for digital signage. Menus in the fast dining have TVs over the counter where people order. We have customers that are just using it for that, that don't even care about what the original purpose of Ditto was, which was the screen mirroring stuff, and then we have customers that only use it for screen mirroring and we haven't got them up and running on digital signage ye. They haven't realized what the value add is.  But there are more customers doing both. They are mirroring, and then when it's not mirroring, they are showing important information to the users. Whether it's connection information, things going on at the organization, stocks, or just the kind of stuff to keep it feeling more fresh, utilizing those screens. But yeah, it's definitely a product that can just be utilized as a standalone digital signage solution. I'm guessing that you and particularly your customer-facing folks fight a perception problem in that there are other products out in the marketplace that were started as one thing and added digital signage on, and generally speaking, the perception I have and the feedback I've somewhat heard is that, “Yeah, it can do digital signage too, but we're not talking about robust digital signage. We're talking like we can run a set of files on a screen in an order and that's about where it begins and ends.”  Andrew Gould: We are not an industry-leading digital signage solution when it comes to features. There are incumbents that are far more feature-heavy than we are, but what we've tried to focus on are the things that the customers truly need to have a good digital signage experience. So it's being able to create signage lists, as we call them, which are basically playlists of media, ease of use of setting all of that up in the configuration portal, so that it doesn't feel like an add-on or a thing etucked into a corner. A lot of time and energy is spent on the part that actually the end user never sees, which is configuration managing of all the media files and also providing templates for people who don't want to or don't have the resources to create their own digital signage assets. Providing some really easy turnkey solutions as well to say, hey, if you just need to get some basic information shown and you don't want to have to pay a designer or something like that to create something, here are some really cool templates that we've put together for you and they're just WYSIWYG, change this line, change the subject, change the body, upload an image, add a video, and you're ready to go with really nice looking digital signage.  So I wouldn't say we are innovating digital signage by any means, but we're trying to create a package that doesn't feel like we just bolted something onto the side of it. That really feels like a first-class digital signage solution. In a lot of cases, while there are certainly feature-rich software options out there, I suspect a hell of a lot of end users don't ever use more than 15% of what's available to them with those platforms.  Andrew Gould: Yeah, absolutely. We poll our users frequently about, “Hey, what do you like about the product? What don't you like about the product?” That's the most important part. We wanna make that better, and we ask, “Hey, here's a whole list of different things. How much would you use this?”  The feedback nears that there is 10-15% of features we don't have that people say they might use, and most of the people say that they probably would never use synchronized digital signage across eight different screens or things that kind of fall into the more high-end solutions for digital signage. They just want ease of use, things that look nice and reliable. Those are what they care about the most. Yeah. So if somebody comes to you and says, “We're putting a huge LED video wall in the lobby. Can you drive that?” You might say, I suppose we could maybe do that, but that's not what we're here for.  Andrew Gould: We've certainly had those requests and we've said, “Hey, here's how you would do that if you are ready to do it. But, to be honest, there are better solutions for that problem.”  Digital signage is not a one-size-fits-all problem. There is very high-end hardware that drives large billboards and there's our end where we're just trying to drive it on a 70'' screen in a room. So we don't have to solve everyone's problems. We're fine saying, that sounds really cool. We wished Ditto was designed to do things like that. You might be better served with something that's from the ground up built to power stuff like that.  You can stay in your lane, and it's a pretty decent-sized lane.  Andrew Gould: Correct. Yeah, it's a huge market. So there's plenty of room for lots of people to all be swimming, doing different things, and not really stepping on each other. One of the problems I find with some entry-level, and I'm not saying yours is, but just in broad strokes, entry-level platforms don't have much in the way if they have anything at all in terms of device management, and I gather that your device management is done through third-party device management modules, like the Jamf and so on. Andrew Gould: Yeah. So early on, we explored building Ditto with MDM capabilities. But what we experienced in talking with our customers is that most of them already had a solution to do those sorts of things. So we would have to convince them to switch to our device management platform and 90% of what MDM does has nothing to do with what we would need to do with it. So we'd be building out this whole lump on the side of Ditto just to be able to replicate the service they were already using so they would switch to ours.  So we ultimately looked at that and said, this isn't the right fit for us, rather than trying to fight upstream and convince all of these customers that already have solutions to switch to ours. Let's just partner with all of these solutions and make it work really well. So we've partnered with the various Apple TV MDM vendors to make it really turnkey to mass deploy Ditto to hundreds of Apple TVs with literally just pushing a couple of buttons. So that's been our approach to it and that seems to be what the customer's like with us.  Yeah, if they're already using it, why would they go to something that's just dedicated to your application?  Andrew Gould: No matter what I do, I will always be inferior to a Jamf. They're a huge publicly traded company focused solely on MDM. I'm never gonna make an MDM as good as theirs, so why try?  What is your footprint, and what would you say are your core vertical markets?  Andrew Gould: The core vertical markets definitely K-12 and higher education in the United States. We have a footprint all around the world. We're in Europe, Asia, Australia, South America. We have a lot of business users as well, whether that's in office space or co-working spaces have been a big business for us lately, as people are working from home but wanna get out of the house occasionally and go somewhere else. Those office spaces are looking for easy mirroring as people come in and out. But we're really focused on the K-12 and higher education market because this solution just fits so nicely into that environment. It works great in business. It works great in fast casual dining and all these other places that people use Ditto. But what's cool about Ditto is that it is so universal as a tool. It can plug in all kinds of places. We have churches that use it to show the lyrics to songs as people are singing along. There are all kinds of really interesting applications that we set out to get into flexible and adaptable tools and put into a lot of interesting environments.  When it comes to education, how is it being used in classrooms?  Andrew Gould: So you've typically got it running on the screen at the front of the room, whether that's an interactive whiteboard or just a TV mounted on the wall or projector, whatever. It's usually connected to that, and then primarily, the teacher is using it to push her screen from a laptop device up to the screen, and then we can support up to four devices sharing at the same time. So then students will connect and we have an add-on application for Windows and iOS where the teacher can manage who's allowed to be sharing. She can approve or deny connections to hide somebody if she wants to emphasize on her screen and not the other students who are connected to that. Then typically, when nothing is being shared, there's digital signage that's usually managed at the school level, but we do have some schools that allow the teachers to set up their own digital signage per classroom. So you're seeing that digital signage there and then it's spilling out into the hallways. They're putting TVs into hallways of even K-12 schools, higher ed common areas. They're running mainly just digital signage in those areas versus the hybrids that they're running in the classrooms.  Are school districts mostly using Apple TVs?  Andrew Gould: It's about two-thirds Apple TVs and one-third Windows devices, that's how our users break down. So it's not quite 50-50. I think it's trending more towards that 50-50 blend. Early on, it was very Apple TV heavy, and we're seeing a bit more of a skewback towards Windows devices.  I'm not sure exactly what's behind that trend, maybe it's the drive down of cheaper and cheaper Windows devices that can actually run 4k video and kind of stuff, the nooks, and the likes But yeah. So right now, the blend is really two-thirds Apple TVs.  What about collaboration displays that have systems on chips embedded in them, can you work with those?  Andrew Gould: So we've looked at the Android TVs and Samsung's OS and those sorts of things. The feedback that we've got from customers is that they are not really interested in that capability. The limitation of that is usually given the horsepower on those devices; we can usually only show one or two screens at a time. It ends up making Ditto, a hobbled product for it, and most of the time when people come to us, they've already got Apple TVs purchased or they've got a Windows device, they're already looking to use, and they're coming from the, “I picked my device, now I'm looking for the solution” approach, and the Smart TVs don't come up in the conversations that much. We're not opposed to it. If that's the way the market wants to go, we can surely adapt to that. All our technology is really flexible, so it's quick for us to repurpose a new platform, but just not what the customers are asking these days.  Yeah, and it's not like an Apple TV is expensive.  Andrew Gould: It's $150, and it'll run for probably 10 years before you have to worry about replacing it. They're really rock solid.  When you're selling into K12 in particular, are you selling district-wide or do you have to sell down to the school level?  Andrew Gould: It's typically district-wide. It's usually the IT coordinator or applicable semi-related role there that's looking to roll out an agnostic solution, and that's another place where we really shine is that schools are not one-to-one all the same type of device. You're typically seeing iPads in the lower grades, and then you're seeing Windows surfaces or Chromebooks as you get more into typing and writing papers and those sorts of things. So they want one solution that's going to work across the board for all of those things, and that's what Ditto's bread and butter is. So that starts the conversation off right away: one solution, you're supporting one product across, whether you have three schools or a hundred schools in the district, it's all the same solution, and then we can start the conversations if you realize digital signage, you've got all these screens in the cafeteria or the hallways, how are you putting information up there? And a lot of times it's, oh, there's a USB drive, and we go around and collect them, and we update them once a month. Somebody's job is to update the USB with the media and plug it back into all the TVs, and there is a much better way to do that. With a lot of schools using Chrome devices, is that problematic at all, or does it work with your system just fine? Andrew Gould: No, it works great with Chrome. So Chrome  OS used to have applications; they called them Chrome Apps. So we originally had a Chrome app that did all of this. That was in the store. And then Google wound down Chrome apps just because they weren't really being utilized all that much on the platform. So we went to a pure browser experience. So you just go to our goditto.com website, and you enter the room code that's being shown on the teacher screen, and then we just use the web RTC built-in technology to capture the screen and send it over to Ditto receiver and show it so you can actually share without installing anything on a device, and that works on all platforms that support the browser capture technology.  There are other options out there for certainly higher ed. You've got companies like Rise Vision that's particularly strong in K to 12 in churches and things like that, and some others How do I describe them, CMS software companies that are focused on that market, and then you've got the companies like Zoom that have video collaboration that have added on some digital signage capabilities and the Air Teams, where people who do similar screen mirroring. How do you match up against them and how do you sell against them? Andrew Gould: Yeah, so the Air Team and Immersive, they're selling proprietary hardware with a subscription service on top of it. So if you're looking for, “Hey, just give me a turnkey solution, give me everything. I'm not really worried about the price, I just want it to work.” Those are great solutions. But what we see in schools is they care very much about the cost and the pricing, and some of them have already made investments into hardware with Apple TVs or Windows devices, and they're saying, look, this is just extra cost that I don't need to do the same thing. So how we position against those is just, “Hey, you can use whatever hardware you want. We're happy to run on either of those platforms and if you've already got them, cool, just buy our subscription, and you're ready to go. You don't have to worry about buying a five, six or eight hundred dollar hardware device, deploying it, or managing it differently than how you manage other things.” So that's how we match up against those.  The more CMS type things that are focused on, digital signage in those very specific things. Again, those are the incumbents, those are the people that have been doing this; some of them have been there for decades doing this type of stuff. So we're not here to try and outcompete those companies. We just see that there are certain niches that maybe those companies don't fill as well, and we're content to come along and fill those in and keep improving our product, and one day, maybe we'll compete with them. Maybe we'll have a platform that we've decided, hey, we should just make it do everything for everybody and look at going after competitors like those.  But like I said, the market is big enough that they can have that niche. We can have this niche, and it's a very healthy business for us, and we're happy to keep doing that. There are a couple of things that we know how to do really well versus, maybe, trying to get too big too fast, trying to do everything all at once.  Was having the digital signage component added to it pretty important because you've got companies like Google that have Chromecast that costs 35 bucks or something like that, that can do some degree of screen sharing, and it would be people who are really cost conscious, they could just go down that path? Andrew Gould: Yeah, for sure. We don't really see many Chromecast in school-type approaches. For whatever reason, they still don't have basic security like onscreen code or passwords. They've only recently rolled out the ability to remotely manage those types of things. Adding digital signage wasn't really about competing with any particular thing.  The customers that we have and the ones that we're trying to get all value this functionality, and we saw it as a natural fit. It wasn't like we had to completely reinvent the product and take it in some radical new direction. It just seemed like a natural complement to what we were already doing and we talked with some customers. We're running two different solutions on an Apple TV, and they were trying to use Ditto for screen mirroring, and they were trying to use a different Apple TV application for digital signage, and they were trying to do crazy MDM scheduling, based on the class schedule, lock this app for Ditto, so it's open, and then when it's time in between class, walk the digital assignment solution, and we said, there people really want it that bad, maybe we can just be all of that in one and not force our customers to have to run two things like that. So that was the natural genesis of it versus we need to protect our position or something like that. It just made it evolutionary to move in a new direction. So, how seamless and intuitive is it?  Let's say, it is running in digital signage mode, the screen is, and the teacher decides, I want to push something to the screen from my laptop or my phone or whatever, and launches that session, does its thing. To then go back to digital signage, what's involved? Andrew Gould: You just start sharing your screen and stop sharing your screen. So it's directed from the device that wants to share their screen. So, when you open the app, you enter the room code. We make them fun, easy to enter, like red apples, big pineapple things that are easy, not like random numbers and digits that are hard for kids to type in. And they push ‘Start sharing' and boom, their screen's up there, digital signage fades out, screen sharing fades in. It's an instantaneous switchover, and then as soon as the last person stops sharing their screen, if you've got multiple people connected, it goes right back to the digital signage slide it was on when the person first connected. So it's very easy. There's no mode, nothing you have to tinker with on the screen itself.  So the management, whether it's the school, the district, or the individual teacher, they're using a browser to plan out their digital signage side of what the screen's doing? Andrew Gould: Yeah. It's all a cloud-based portal. So you can be in the same building, or you can be in a different state. We have businesses that are deployed with Ditto in offices around the world, and there are a couple of people that sit in California and they manage all the digital signage worldwide. So it's super easy right from the portal. And what's the commercial side of it? What are you paying? Is it a SaaS?  Andrew Gould: Yeah, it's a SaaS model. It's a yearly subscription. We offer a monthly if people are using this in bursts, but obviously, you save money by purchasing for an annual versus monthly. And it's per screen that's running Ditto.  So the other thing that we allow is, if you have multiple screens in a classroom, obviously, you can show digital signage on those, but we actually allow one device to push their content to multiple screens. So we're seeing, especially in some classrooms, you've maybe got a screen in the front or to the side or behind as they set up classes less like when I was in school where it was just rows, everybody facing the front now that these little pods of kids are sitting at tables and not everybody's facing the same direction, so they've actually got multiple screens in the rooms. So we just charge per screen that runs the software, and that's it. What's the fee?  Andrew Gould: So, it's $12.50 per month annually. So it's $125 per month if you're at 10 or more receivers in a school. Is that just for the screen mirroring, or is that for the functionality, including the digital signage? Andrew Gould: Yeah. That's for everything. That's one price for everything. We don't charge more for that. We view it as, “Hey, we took this thing that we charge this price for. It made it even better by giving you all the stuff, and it's the same price.”  And that includes the emergency alerts as well. So that ties into a protocol called CAP, which is how the National Weather Service and School Alert Systems all can send alerts. So we have a CAP server capability, where we can receive alerts from other servers, whether it's the National Weather Service, an alert system that, unfortunately, a lot of schools are having to deploy now, where it can push one button and text the parents and send a push notification and send all the alerts out to Ditto and Ditto immediately takes over and shows that alert. You get all of that for that one price.  Yeah, it sounds very much like this isn't a constrained compromise limited solution for the K to 12 market, it's gonna do pretty much what an average classroom and what an average school is going to need.  Andrew Gould: Yeah, we really tried to put everything in there because, again, we don't want people having to be like, “Well, Ditto almost does everything. It'd be great if it just did this one other thing, and then we wouldn't need this other solution.” The hope is that we can provide that one solution that everybody needs.  Tell me more about the company. It's been around since 2008. Is it privately held, or are you listed?  Andrew Gould: We're privately held. I'm one of the co-founders of the company, started it back in 2008 with my business partner. When we first started out, we weren't doing collaboration. We were doing iOS app development. We had one of the first 50 apps in the iOS app store. We could actually get to the bottom of the list. It was a TV guide app where you could put in the code and see what was on TV. It sounds like an archaic technology today but it was pretty cool back in the day, and then we got into the collaboration space in about 2012 when we released our first collaboration app, and then we've been focused on collaboration ever since.  Where's the company based?  Andrew Gould: North Canton, Ohio, about an hour south of Cleveland but we have a diversified team present in a lot of states all around the country, but all the within the United States.  Is the majority of your business in the US?  Andrew Gould: Yes. That's where mainly our outbound sales are focused on. But, like I said, we have a really big following actually in Australia. A lot of ditto customers there, and we are working on expanding into Europe this year and into next year to really go after that. There's a lot more regulation and requirements, and apps have to work certain ways and those sorts of things that we want to make sure that we're compliant and respectful to those things and come into that market appropriately, but it's a big focus for us because we think the same needs exist there as they do everywhere else. Yeah, it's interesting. A lot of US and Canadian companies think they can just make the jump over, and then they get asked about things like GDPR and they're looking at the other person, “What?”  Andrew Gould: Yeah, or even just common things like in France, everything has to be localized into the French language. If you have one string in your application that's in English, they typically won't purchase. They value that. So we want to be respectful to those things, and they're not hard things for us to comply with. It just requires us to pay somebody who knows French to translate a list of strings, and then we can sell into those markets as well. Are you selling direct, or do you have channel partners?  Andrew Gould: Mainly direct. We have some channel partners that we started with right before the pandemic, and so we've seen a lot of that market move around, and so some of the channel partners that we originally partnered were more business-focused and the world has changed for business where people just aren't going to the office as much anymore, and those channel partners just didn't make sense.  So we're actually working through a sort of reset of that channel partner program to be more education-focused with the channel partners. But we have some really great channel partners in the US that we work with, whether they're distributors or they're resellers, whether they're just purchasing on behalf of the school and passing that through, or taking our solution and bundling it up with, “Hey, here's the screen you need and here's the speakers and the WiFi and everything,” and including us as a full technology rollout. We like to work with both of those.  If people want to know more, where do they find you online? Andrew Gould: Our website is goditto.com. You can sign up for a free 30-day trial there. You can set up as many screens as you want, and play with digital signage as much as you want for 30 days, and then, as I said, it starts at $150 per receiver for a single license, and then we have volume pricing above 10 and it scale scales down from there.  Great. Thank you very much for spending some time with me.  Andrew Gould: Yeah, thanks, Dave. Appreciate it.

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Use these psychological tactics to change how people see prices. I recently read a very in-depth article by Nick Kolenda on the psychology of pricing. I was so fascinated by what he revealed that I immediately changed some of the ways I display prices for myself and the things I design for my clients. I thought I would save you time by summarizing the 42 research-proven psychological tactics in Nick's article in a podcast series. I'm sure you'll find it very useful in your design business. All studies I reference are linked to in Nick's article, in case you're interested. As Nick puts it, At the end of the day, price is merely a perception. Nothing more. Nothing less. In fact, you can change that perception of how people interpret a price simply by changing the visual traits of the numeral. It's a given. The number 5 is greater than 4. And 6 is greater than 5. But using these psychological pricing techniques, you can actually make prices seem lower - without reducing the actual price. According to a 2002 study, most people don't remember exact prices. Rather, they remember general prices. Have you ever looked at a price, and later when asked about it, only have a general idea of how much it was? When I get home from the grocery store and my wife asked me how much it cost. I don't always remember the exact price. Was it $131 and change, or was it $138 and change? So I might tell her it cost "$130 something dollars." Because humans have such a hazy memory regarding prices, we can use certain psychological tactics to influence people into seeing smaller prices than they realize. Let me get right down to the actual tactics. Tactic 1: Reduce the Left Digit By One You're probably already familiar with this tactic. Reducing the left digit by one creates a perception of a lower price. $199 is viewed as a much better deal than paying $200. Gumroad's conversion rates study shows that pricing things at $0.99 instead of $1 or $2.99 instead of $3, or $5.99 instead of $6 conversion rates increase by 2-3%. According to a 2005 study. Our brains encode numbers so quickly that we register the size of the number before we finish reading the entire number. When reading $1.99, our brain registers it as a dollar something which is lower than $2 something making it more desirable. Nick offered a bonus tip to this tactic. Superscripting or minimizing the digits after the decimal places more emphasis on the number before the decimal. So $1 with a small 99 next to it appears smaller than $1.99 all the same size. Tactic 2: Use Prices With Fewer Syllables I'm a bit skeptical about this tactic. But according to a 2012 study, the more syllables there are, the more mental resources we need to process the information. The same principle applies to numbers. If we spend more mental energy reading a number or price, we falsely perceive that price as larger. The fewer syllables involved, and we perceive that price as smaller. It doesn't matter that you are not saying the number out loud. Your brain does it for you. This same study found that a slightly higher price with fewer syllables was more favourable to people than a lower price with more syllables. For example. $27.82 has 7 syllables. $28.16 has only 5 syllables. There's only $0.34 between the two prices. But people were more inclined to spend the higher amount. As I said, I'm skeptical about this one, but the studies do show it to be true. Tactic 3: Display Prices In A Small Font Size. This one applies to what we do as designers. According to a 2005 study. Human brains conceptualize size with value. If you display the price in a smaller font size, people will perceive the price to be smaller. Another trick is to position larger elements around the price to create a visual hierarchy. The larger elements will make the price visually smaller, which in turn makes the perceived price smaller. The revers works for discounts. Display discounts larger to emphasize their large value. Tactic 4: Remove The Comma. I really like this tactic. According to a 2012 study, removing the comma from a price makes it seem lower. This one ties into tactic 2 of having fewer syllables. A price displayed as $1,499 reads as one-thousand four hundred and ninety-nine–10 syllables. Whereas a price displayed as $1499, without the comma, reads as fourteen ninety-nine–5 syllables. I may be skeptical about the syllables thing. But I cannot argue that $1499 sounds like a better deal than $1,499. Tactic 5: Use Words That Indicate a Reduced Magnitude. According to a 2005 study, the words associated with a price influence people's perceptions of that price. For example. Two identical pairs of inline skates are selling for the same price. Both packages list the same features and benefits. However, one pair emphasized “High Performance” while the other pair emphasized “Low Friction.” The pair that emphasized “Low Friction” outsold the other pair. The wording associated with the price caused the perception of the price to change. How can you incorporate this into your design business? Maybe you can promote low-maintenance websites as opposed to high converting websites? I don't know. But it might be worth doing some A/B testing. Tactic 6: Separate the Shipping and Handling. According to a 1998 study, people are more likely to use the base price when making comparisons. By partitioning your price, meaning separate the price into multiple components instead of offering a total price, you lower the base price, which creates a perception of the offer being more affordable. A 2006 test run on eBay showed auctions with an opening bid of $0.01 and a shipping cost of $3.99. Outperformed auctions for the same item with an opening bid of $4 with free shipping. The total prices were identical. And yet, the first one received a lot more traction. Tactic 7: Offer Payments in Installments By offering people an option to pay in smaller increments rather than one lump sum, you anchor their perception on the smaller price. Let's say you are pitching a new website design to a client. Instead of quoting them $6000, quote them three installments of $2000 each. Don't get me wrong. Client's are not stupid. They know that three installments of $2000 are $6000. But by offering installments, you taint their comparison process. Even though the client knows your total price is $6000, if they compare it to another web designer who quotes a total of $6000, you're lower installments will feel much more appealing to them and have a good chance of influencing their decision towards you. Tactic 8: Mention the Daily Equivalence. You see this tactic often used by charities and non-profits. Instead of mentioning the monthly or yearly cost, they share the low daily price. A 1998 study proved that using a daily price creates a perception of an overall lower price. This doesn't mean you shouldn't mention the regular price. In fact, it should still be the primary focus. However, mentioning the daily equivalence anchors people towards the lower end of the price spectrum. For example. Being a member of the Resourceful Designer Community is $14.95/month. That works out to $0.49 per day. Is having a group of fellow design peers who are able and eager to help you grow your business not worth $0.49 per day to you? If so, join today. A bonus tip: if you can't reframe your price into a daily cost, a 1999 study shows that the same thing can be done using petty cash expenses, such as the cost of a cup of coffee. Tactic 9: Be Precise With Large Prices This is one of my favourites out of all of these tactics. It's also the first one I started implementing. When dealing with large prices, people are willing to pay more money when a price is precise instead of rounded. For example,  A website project costing $6834 as opposed to a website project costing $6000. Why is that? A rounded price is more suspicious. A client may question how you came up with a nice round price of $6000. Did you pick it out of thin air? Did you calculate the actual cost at $5700 and decided to round it up to $6000? However, a precise number, such as $6834, leaves little room for suspicion. If you are quoting a precise number, clients will readily believe it's the actual price of the project. This thought pattern makes people much more agreeable to the price. A 2007 study analyzing 27,000 real estate transactions showed that home buyers were willing to pay more, often thousands and even tens of thousands of dollars more, for a home listed at a specific price compared to a home listed at a rounded price. These same people were also less likely to negotiate, or if they did, they would negotiate in much smaller increments than those bidding on a home with a rounded asking price. By providing a specific price, such as $6834 for a website instead of $6000, the client is much more likely to trust what you are selling them and be agreeable to the price. As I said, after reading this one, I immediately stopped quoting rounded prices to my clients. It's still too early to tell how it's going, but so far, so good. Want more tactics? Tune in to next week's episode Resource of the week Chrome Application Shortcuts A convenient way to turn a website into a desktop application is by using Chrome Applications Shortcuts. This is especially useful for browser-based tools such as invoicing/bookkeeping and Customer and Project Management Software. Instead of searching through dozens of open browser tabs for the right one, create an application shortcut and treat the webpage as a desktop application. To create a Chrome Application Shortcut, open the website, you would like to turn into an application in a browser tab. On the far right of the address bar, click the three vertical dots. Select “More Tools” > “Create Shortcut” Name the application in the pop-up window and be sure to check “Open as Window.” then press Create. A new Application icon will appear in the Chrome Apps folder within your Applications folder. You can now use it just like you would any other application. You can add it to your Dock. You can create Aliases from it. And you can easily switch between it and your other applications via the Control Centre. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

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Do you have what it takes to run a design business from home? If there’s one positive takeaway from the 2020 Pandemic, it’s that a lot of people got to experience what it’s like to work from home. Some realized right away that it’s not for them. They need people around them and an office environment to be productive. In contrast, others got a taste of what being a home-based business owner is like. And they like it. But to run a design business from home, full-time, permanently, you need to know what you’re getting into. Some designers think that working from home is an easy life and that once you set up your design business, new clients and projects will just flow in. But it doesn’t work that way. This is not Field Of Dreams. Just building it does not guarantee they will come. Running a successful design business takes more than design skills. For your design business to succeed, you need solid skills in business development, lead generation, marketing, communication, leadership to work with your team, and of course, sales. Being a designer and owning a design business are two completely different things. So how do you make the most of it? How do you set yourself up for success? How do you ensure that you can sustain this lifestyle long term? The answer–you need to plan. How does that saying go? “By failing to prepare, you’re preparing to fail.” So prepare yourself. Because chances are, it’s going to be a rocky start. Step 1: Create an environment you’re comfortable in. The first step in feeling like you’re running a home-based business is to treat your working space as your business office. Having a place in your dwelling where you can transition from home life to business life is key. If you have a separate room that you can designate as your office, all the better. But if that’s not the case, pick a corner and set it up to be your working environment. Get yourself a good office chair and set up your computer so that it’s ergonomically comfortable to work at. Then fill the space with everything you need to work productively. The more your environment feels like your “working space,” the more productive you’ll be. Step 2: Keep your overhead to a minimum. Everyone dreams of making big bucks and living the dream. But that’s not the way you should be thinking. Remember, it’s not how much money you make that’s important, but how much of the money you keep and what you do with that money, especially at the start. Even though a good office chair is important, don’t spend $1000 on one if you don’t have the money to invest yet. Keeping your overhead low is important. You want to keep your expenses to a minimum to benefit more from the money you make designing. A wise man once said you could save 100% of your money by choosing not to buy something. So even though I’m a proponent for things such as lifetime deals. It’s only a deal if you can afford it and if you’re going to get enough use from it to cover the cost of the deal. Especially when you’re just starting, be careful what you spend. Step 3: Work on your business, not in your business. One of the biggest mistakes freelance designers make is focusing all their time and energy on the projects they do for their clients. Yes, you want to give 100% to your clients. But that 100% doesn’t have to mean all of your time. There’s a big difference between working in your business and working on your business. You must make time to work on aspects of your business as well. Like finances, to make sure you’re keeping your overhead low and doing the most with the money you’re earning. Then there are marketing plans to figure out how you’re going to reach out to new clients. There are also processes and systems you need to develop for your business to succeed, like how you will communicate with your clients and your team? How are you going to organize all the assets you acquire? Don’t forget your goals. Goals are your destination. Where you want to be a year, two years, 5 years from now. Without goals, you have no way to measure your success. Just because you’re an office of one, making money from the few clients you have, don’t think you can avoid treating what you do as a business. And for any business to succeed, it needs to evolve with the times. So make time to work on your business, and not just in your business. Step 4: Be proud of your home-based business. Never shy away from the fact that you are working from home. There was a time when working from home was looked down upon. But not anymore. It’s the end of 2020, and if there’s anything this year has taught us, is that working from home is a viable option. It no longer has the negative stigma it once had. In fact, many people will be envious when you say you’re working from home. Take the attitude that you are working from home, not working at home. There’s a difference. You are running a business, just like every brick and mortar business out there. It just so happens that your business is situated in the same location you call home. Step 5: Look the part. Just because you’re working from home is not an excuse to be unprofessional. How you present yourself and your business is vitally important to your success. I’m a T-Shirt and jeans kind of guy, but any time I meet with a client, either in person or virtually, I make sure to dress up, shave and look presentable. If you present yourself as a starving artist, your clients won’t take you seriously. If you need an actual business environment to meet with clients, look into daily office or conference room rentals at local co-working spaces. Looking professional also applies to your visual brand. Your logo, your website, your social media, etc. You’re a designer; I shouldn’t have to tell you the importance a good brand can have on a business. The same applies to you. Step 6: Be honest with yourself. All of this may be well and good, but you have to be honest with yourself before you get too far down this path. Not everyone is suited to working from home. Nobody knows you better than yourself. Do you have the work habits required to do this all alone? Do you have the discipline to work unsupervised and not be distracted by the things around you? Can you remain happy and motivated after doing this for a long time? Are you capable of dealing with the isolation of being alone every day? This last one is important. Isolation can lead to depression, which can lead to poor working habits and bad business decisions. Which, if left unchecked, can result in a failed business. Find something to help with isolation. Join groups and communities to help combat isolation. The Resourceful Designer Community is a great place for this. Or find local groups where you can interact in person. Not only will these activities aid your social mindset, but they can also enhance your business and quality of life significantly. Think about it before you try it. So there you have it, six steps to running a business from home. If you’ve already taken the plunge and are currently running a home-based design business, make sure you have everything in place to ensure your success. Remember, A goal without a plan is just a wish. And the last time I checked, wishes don’t put food on the table. How much thought have you given to working from home? Let me know by leaving a comment for this episode. Tip of the week Chrome Application Shortcuts A convenient way to turn a website into a desktop application is by using Chrome Applications Shortcuts. This is especially useful for browser-based tools such as invoicing/bookkeeping and Customer and Project Management Software. Instead of searching through dozens of open browser tabs for the right one, create an application shortcut and treat the webpage as a desktop application. To create a Chrome Application Shortcut, open the website, you would like to turn into an application in a browser tab. On the far right of the address bar, click the three vertical dots. Select "More Tools" > "Create Shortcut" Name the application in the pop-up window and be sure to check "Open as Window." then press Create. A new Application icon will appear in the Chrome Apps folder within your Applications folder. You can now use it just like you would any other application. You can add it to your Dock. You can create Aliases from it. And you can easily switch between it and your other applications via the Control Centre. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

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In this episode, we welcome guest Cory. We also talk about Google's announcement to kill off Chrome Apps and account creation/deletion policy and procedure. Please share this podcast with your friends, and send feedback to k12techtalk@gmail.com!

This week on The Chrome Cast, we spend quite a bit talking through some of the potential impact the new 2020 Chromebook lineup will have on the ecosystem. Apart from the beautiful and powerful and rugged devices we've already had hands-on time with, the entire group of new Chromebooks released in this calendar year will be the first devices to ship with Google's new expanded AUE (auto update expiration) policies in place. They will all get updates through June 2028, and that makes a big difference in the way these Chromebooks can be marketed to consumers, enterprise customers, and schools alike. We also spend some time talking about the crazy journey the ASUS Chromebook Flip C436 has taken over the past week. From showing up on Google's Chromebook page with a price attached to actually going up for pre-order with two distinct models and a February 24th release date to completely disappearing from Amazon altogether, it's been a bit of a rollercoaster keeping up with the new ASUS flagship. NOTABLE LINKS Citing longer lifespan, Google bumps price of Chrome Management License Hands-on first impressions with the incredibly durable Acer Chromebook 712 [VIDEO] Google and Verizon team up to give Stadia Premiere Editions to new Fios customers HP debuts 4 new EDU Chromebooks at BETT 2020 BETT 2020: Google extends Chromebook Auto Update Policy to 8 years for new devices We're giving away a Google Stadia Buddy Pass ASUS Chromebook Flip C436 listing mysteriously vanishes from Amazon Google announces timeline for the end of Chrome Apps on Chromebooks Acer announces durable and powerful new Comet Lake Chromebook for education ASUS Chromebook C436 gets a release date and multiple models up for pre-order [UPDATED]The new flagship ASUS Chromebook Flip C436 gets an official price tag thanks to Google --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chromeunboxed/support

The FBI has cracked an iPhone 11, but the Justice Department is still pressuring Apple to unlock iPhones. The EU is still looking to force manufacturers into using a universal charging cable. Google is detailing the end of Chrome Apps. And I've spent the weekend with Android 10 on the LG V50! Let's get our tech week started off right! Stories This Week: Introducing #2020Hearing – http://somegadgetguy.com/2020/01/15/2020hearing-a-year-long-tech-project-to-protect-your-hearing/ Android 10 on the XPERIA 5 – http://somegadgetguy.com/2020/01/16/android-10-on-the-sony-xperia-5-gestures-for-a-skinny-phone/ ModMic USB Review – http://somegadgetguy.com/2020/01/17/modmic-usb-and-uni-review-great-microphone-options-for-gamers/ Thoughts on my first test drive of a Segway Ninebot S http://somegadgetguy.com/2020/01/09/segway-ninebot-s-test-drive-i-didnt-wipe-out/ New Intel NUC for 2020 – 10th gen Core i3 for gaming and streaming http://somegadgetguy.com/2020/01/10/2020-intel-nuc-10th-gen-core-i3-for-streaming-and-gaming/ FBI cracks iPhone 11 https://9to5mac.com/2020/01/15/fbi-pensacola-iphone-11-pro/ Justice Department still wants Apple to break encryption https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-justice-department-pressures-apple-investigators-say-iphone-easier-to-crack-11579010143 EU still fighting for the universal charger https://gizmodo.com/the-dream-of-a-common-charger-is-alive-despite-apples-c-1840977834 Luminary cuts price on premium podcast service https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/16/luminary-premium-podcast-pricing/ TOP STORIES OF THE WEEK ON r/GLOWINGRECTANGLES https://www.reddit.com/r/glowingrectangles/top/?t=week Google details end of Chrome Apps https://blog.chromium.org/2020/01/moving-forward-from-chrome-apps.html Xiaomi spinning off POCO brand https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/17/xiaomi-spins-off-poco-as-an-independent-brand/ Juan RAMBLES on about the LG V50 and repairing gadgets… Support SomeGadgetGuy! The complete list of how you can contribute to production on this channel AND get yourself some cool stuff! Patreon, Amazon, Humble Bundle, OnePlus, Audible, Merch, and MORE! http://somegadgetguy.com/2012/07/15/support-somegadgetguy-get-cool-stuff/ SomeGadgetGuy's Gear List: Panasonic G85 http://amzn.to/2oKNwAm Panasonic 15mm f/1.7 http://amzn.to/2qWH0UZ Panasonic 25mm f/1.7 http://amzn.to/2ohTzsd Audio-Technica Lavalier https://amzn.to/2WywofM Focusrite 6i6 Audio Interface http://amzn.to/2p5l7py Shure SM57 Microphone http://amzn.to/2oypnLm Cloudlifter CL1 http://amzn.to/2oKN9G5 LED Light Panels http://amzn.to/2oy60ls AJA U-TAP HDMI http://amzn.to/2wfprBF Elgato HD S http://amzn.to/2p95Unu SGGQA Podcast RSS: http://goo.gl/oSUjvi SGGQA Podcast on Spotify: https://goo.gl/uyuSsj SGGQA Podcast Google Play https://goo.gl/ABF7Up SGGQA Podcast iTunes: https://goo.gl/YUcyS7 SGGQA Podcast on Stitcher: http://goo.gl/cyazfY SGGQA Podcast on PlayerFM: https://goo.gl/34B8SG SGGQA Podcast on Archive.org: https://goo.gl/9zh4pK Juan Carlos Bagnell on Twitch – http://Twitch.tv/SomeGadgetGuy Juan Carlos Bagnell on Twitter – http://Twitter.com/SomeGadgetGuy Juan on Instagram – http://instagram.com/somegadgetguy Support SomeGadgetGuy Production: http://amzn.com/w/34V1TR2551P6M Links on this page may be affiliate links which help support production on this website. Support Talking Tech with SomeGadgetGuy by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/talking-tech-with-somegadgetgu This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

When Chromebooks first became a thing back in 2013, the web was very different. Chrome Apps allowed developers to create an app-like experience for Chromebook users, something websites simply couldn't do at the time.  Seven years later, the web has matured and can do pretty much everything that you would want in an app, without the need to develop an actual application. In January of 2020 Google Announced the plan to official shutdown Chrome Apps starting in 2021.  Listen to this episode to learn more about the timeline and how this announcement will impact education.  ------------------------- Thanks for tuning into the Chromebook Classroom Podcast! If you enjoyed today's episode, I would appreciate your honest rating and review!  You can connect with me, John Sowash, on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. I would love to hear your thoughts on the show!

In this episode of “ Ask the Tech Coach (https://www.teachercast.net/episodes/ask-the-tech-coach/) ,” Jeff welcomes Google Certified Trainer, Tech Coach and Tech Director from Troy City Schools Eujon Anderson on the program to discuss the upcoming FETC Conference. Learn how he keeps track of a staff of more than 200 professionals and 2,000 students using simple yet mobile-friendly applications such as Google Keep to handle a busy schedule across multiple school buildings. This month, the Ask The Tech Coach Podcast (https://www.teachercast.net/askthetechcoach) will be featuring stories from Tech Coaches across the country and we would love to hear from you and learn about your programs. If you are interested in joining us for our next episode, please contact us today! Reflections from Last Week Episode 73: Tech Coach Stories: Michael Vick (https://www.teachercast.net/tech-coach-stories-michael-vick/) Tech Coach MastermindJoin the Tech Coach Mastermind (http://www.teachercast.net/Mastermind) and learn how to help your school district today!2 Mastermind group meetings each month Lifetime access to our Tech Coach Online Community Free Lesson Plans Free Templates Much Much More Website www.TeacherCast.net/Mastermind (http://www.teachercast.net/Mastermind) (https://www.teachercast.net/mastermind) Do You Have a Question For Us? www.TeacherCast.net/VoiceMail (http://www.teachercast.net/VoiceMail) Twitter: @AskTheTechCoach (http://twitter.com/askthetechcoach) Email: feedback@teachercast.net (mailto:feedback@teachercast.net) What Does A Tech Coach Do?How can you be a Tech Director AND Tech Coach? How can a Tech Director be both an Admin and a “Friend” in the classroom? How do you stay organized?Google Keep Google Drive Alexa Voice Commands How to create and maintain a professional development calendar FETC: Tech Coaches Network How can a Tech Director be vulnerable to learn how THEY can help move a school district On the Next Episode (http://www.askthetechcoach.com) Episode 75: Tech Coach Stories About our Guest: Eujon AndersonEujon Anderson is the Technology Director for Troy City Schools, located in Troy, Alabama. As Technology Director, Eujon Anderson oversees the daily tasks of managing the network infrastructure of three schools, as well as, technology planning, professional development, and keeping the technology in order in the classrooms. Mr. Anderson currently provides for over 1500 technology devices, including a 1:1 initiative for 9 – 12. As a Google Certified Trainer, Eujon Anderson also works with deploying G-Suite for Education to other small school systems in the state of Alabama. Mr. Anderson specializes with assisting schools as they begin using Google, as well as providing professional learning for administrators and teachers on adopting G-Suite in the classroom. Twitter: www.eujonanderson.com (http://www.eujonanderson.com) How Clever is That! (https://s23.a2zinc.net/clients/lrp/fetc2020/Public/SessionDetails.aspx?FromPage=Speakers.aspx&SessionID=6583&nav=true&Role=U%27) So Wakelet Up When It's All Over (https://s23.a2zinc.net/clients/lrp/fetc2020/Public/SessionDetails.aspx?FromPage=Speakers.aspx&SessionID=6896&nav=true&Role=U%27) Technology Coach Toolkit: Digital Tools to Support Administrators (https://s23.a2zinc.net/clients/lrp/fetc2020/Public/SessionDetails.aspx?FromPage=Speakers.aspx&SessionID=6898&nav=true&Role=U%27) Digital Equity Inside and Outside the Classroom (https://s23.a2zinc.net/clients/lrp/fetc2020/Public/SessionDetails.aspx?FromPage=Speakers.aspx&SessionID=7113&nav=true&Role=U%27) Chrome Apps and Extensions for the Productive Administrator (https://s23.a2zinc.net/clients/lrp/fetc2020/Public/SessionDetails.aspx?FromPage=Speakers.aspx&SessionID=7153&nav=true&Role=U%27) Act Like an Admin, Think Like a...

Google News and Updates Updated UI for Jamboard web home page Accessibility settings are now easier to access on Docs, Sheets, and Slides Insert a Table of Contents in Google Sites Spelling and grammar improvements in Docs for Enterprise Featured Content Favorite Chrome Features, Tips, Tricks, and Extensions Chrome Profiles With profiles, you can keep all your Chrome info separate, like bookmarks, history, passwords, and other settings. Profiles are ideal for: Sharing a computer with multiple people. Keeping your different accounts, like work and personal, separate. How to Manage Multiple Google Accounts using Chrome Profiles Bookmarks bar with favicons Setting up tabs at start-up Ctrl + Shift + brackets to swap between tabs Pin tabs Incognito: Browse in private-- If you don’t want Google Chrome to remember your activity, you can browse the web privately in Incognito mode. 8 Awesome Reasons to Go Incognito in Google Chrome 160+ Chrome Apps and Extensions for Teachers and Students Back to School with Google Chrome: The Complete Guide! Google Teacher Tribe Mailbag Jenna (Cape Town, South Africa) -- Loves “swiss army knife”. Extra curricula -- wants to use iPads and Google tools (Slides). Used to create ebooks for kindergarten aged students to read. Number books, counting books. As part of art studies, students painted with watercolors, took pictures. Used the crop tool within Slides to crop the images to different shapes. Use the shapes to compile a new image (a robot). Group all shapes together. Different versions of the robot that can be counted. Collab: all can work on the project together. Here’s a note from Jenna: “Unfortunately, my students are still busy with the ones where they have painted their own backgrounds so I don't have a finished product yet. I've attached the one that we used to practice the skill. We did it so that they'd know what to expect when they started painting. For this one, my students used images from Google and turned the slide deck into an eBook for some of the younger students in the school. Each student worked on a different slide so that each slide had a unique robot which we duplicated for the number on the page.” Link to her example slide deck: click here! Caroline Goodman (Memphis, Tennessee) -- 2 Gmail accounts: a .org for faculty and staff, .net domain for students. Teachers frequently create docs, sheets, slides, forms in either one or both accounts. Often, files get lost between the two. Sometimes teachers aren’t sure if the doc was created with .org or .net account. How can we search between both Google Drive accounts? Extension or app? Type in a search and it’ll search both of them? On The Blogs Matt - Google Slides interactive notebooks + 20 activities to fill them Kasey - Shake Up Learning Show Starts March 26th Join the Shake Up Learning Book Study (and book giveaway)

Más información en las notas del podcast sobre recuperar archivos borrados Seguro que en alguna ocasión te ha sucedido que has borrado algún archivo por error. ¿Sabes que puedes recuperar archivos borrados?¿Sabes que herramientas utilizar?¿Sabes que herramientas utilizar para evitar que recuperen archivos borrados? Me gusta tener el escritorio de mi equipo completamente limpio. Procuro al terminar una sesión dejarlo como una patena. Para esta operación limpieza, suelo utilizar dos técnicas. Una que es borrar directamente lo que tengo en el escritorio, y la segunda es mover todo lo que hay en el escritorio a un directorio temporal. Esta segunda es mas al estilo síndrome de Diógenes digital, porque lo único que hago es postergar la limpieza. Transcurridas una docena de sesiones de trabajo, en ese directorio, hay tal acumulación de archivos, que es imposible discernir cuales de ellos me son útiles de cuales no. Así que finalmente lo borro, sin contemplaciones. Y en esa operación de borrado, siempre cae alguno que necesitaba, y llegó el problema... Aunque no del todo, es posible recuperar archivos borrados, al igual que también es posible dificultar la recuperación de archivos borrados. Seguro que a ti también te ha pasado en mas de una ocasión. Recuperar archivos borrados Antes de meternos en faena Artículos de esta semana Configurar y utilizar tu DNI electrónico en Linux Linux en un USB con persistencia Esta semana no he publicado ningún capítulo nuevo del tutorial sobre el terminal, por descanso del personal. La próxima semana no te libras de una nueva entrega, en la que te comentaré como gestionar archivos y directorios desde el terminal. Aplicaciones y actualizaciones A principios de semana, tal y como comenté en el episodio 43 del podcast sobre como ver el hardware de tu ordenador, subí una actualización de CPU-G. Una aplicación que te permite de un solo vistazo, ver el hardware que lleva tu ordenador. En esta actualización además de algunas correcciones, añadí la traducción al español, y soporte para permitir la traducción a cualquier otro idioma. Además he subido dos actualizaciones de extensiones para GNOME Shell Disk Usage Space y Chrome Apps. La primera permite conocer el estado de tus discos en lo que se refiere a capacidad. Mientras que la segunda, es un menú de las aplicaciones Chrome instaladas en tu equipo, para facilitarte el iniciarlas. Para aquellos que instaláis Telegram desde el repositorio que mantengo en Launchpad, indicar que he subido la última actualización. Sin embargo, recordaros que a partir de Ubuntu 17.10 está disponible desde los repositorios oficiales tal y como comento en el artículo sobre Telegram desde repositorio. Más información en las notas del podcast sobre recuperar archivos borrados

Más información en las notas del podcast sobre recuperar archivos borrados Seguro que en alguna ocasión te ha sucedido que has borrado algún archivo por error. ¿Sabes que puedes recuperar archivos borrados?¿Sabes que herramientas utilizar?¿Sabes que herramientas utilizar para evitar que recuperen archivos borrados? Me gusta tener el escritorio de mi equipo completamente limpio. Procuro al terminar una sesión dejarlo como una patena. Para esta operación limpieza, suelo utilizar dos técnicas. Una que es borrar directamente lo que tengo en el escritorio, y la segunda es mover todo lo que hay en el escritorio a un directorio temporal. Esta segunda es mas al estilo síndrome de Diógenes digital, porque lo único que hago es postergar la limpieza. Transcurridas una docena de sesiones de trabajo, en ese directorio, hay tal acumulación de archivos, que es imposible discernir cuales de ellos me son útiles de cuales no. Así que finalmente lo borro, sin contemplaciones. Y en esa operación de borrado, siempre cae alguno que necesitaba, y llegó el problema... Aunque no del todo, es posible recuperar archivos borrados, al igual que también es posible dificultar la recuperación de archivos borrados. Seguro que a ti también te ha pasado en mas de una ocasión. Recuperar archivos borrados Antes de meternos en faena Artículos de esta semana Configurar y utilizar tu DNI electrónico en Linux Linux en un USB con persistencia Esta semana no he publicado ningún capítulo nuevo del tutorial sobre el terminal, por descanso del personal. La próxima semana no te libras de una nueva entrega, en la que te comentaré como gestionar archivos y directorios desde el terminal. Aplicaciones y actualizaciones A principios de semana, tal y como comenté en el episodio 43 del podcast sobre como ver el hardware de tu ordenador, subí una actualización de CPU-G. Una aplicación que te permite de un solo vistazo, ver el hardware que lleva tu ordenador. En esta actualización además de algunas correcciones, añadí la traducción al español, y soporte para permitir la traducción a cualquier otro idioma. Además he subido dos actualizaciones de extensiones para GNOME Shell Disk Usage Space y Chrome Apps. La primera permite conocer el estado de tus discos en lo que se refiere a capacidad. Mientras que la segunda, es un menú de las aplicaciones Chrome instaladas en tu equipo, para facilitarte el iniciarlas. Para aquellos que instaláis Telegram desde el repositorio que mantengo en Launchpad, indicar que he subido la última actualización. Sin embargo, recordaros que a partir de Ubuntu 17.10 está disponible desde los repositorios oficiales tal y como comento en el artículo sobre Telegram desde repositorio. Más información en las notas del podcast sobre recuperar archivos borrados

In this episode Mike & Matt discuss the entrepreneurial hustle, focusing in on the online freelance game for web developers and designers. Segment 1 - Freelancing Online There are a lot of developers, writers, virtual assistants, and more that work freelance online As a small business, we have experience getting work from freelancing websites and other site resources, however, please note that we work almost exclusively in the web development/design segment of the business so your mileage may vary if you're freelancing in a different field There are a lot of different websites and services that are set up for freelancers and their customers, most of them are basically job boards with full service solutions that contain various features such as: Portfolio Page: Set up a portfolio containing things like pricing per service, project showcase, history on the site (ie took successful jobs, their rating as a service providers, etc.), list of skills, and more Job Board: A list of jobs typically posted by potential customers, this job board generally has a bunch of topics ranging from app development to content writing. Customers can also post things like their budget, how much they've spent on the site with other freelancers - to judge how serious they are, and customers can also have a profile that proves how “legitimate” they are, or show off what other projects they've had done so developers have an idea of their expectations Payment Systems: A lot of these sites have some sort of payment system in-place that helps customers pay freelancers, and in turn, help freelancers get paid on time. Premium Services: Often times these sites are free to use, but have premium features that are for sale for customers and/or freelancers. Some of these premium features include: bidding for jobs (limited bids for free, freelancers can pay for more), premium job listing (appear at the top of search results) Services we've used include: Guru.com, Freelancer.com, Craigslist, and Kijiji Segment 2 - Our Experience w/ Freelancer Online Services Guru.com We've applied to a few jobs on Guru without much success, however, we have had success via our portfolio on the site Once we listed our skills and experience on there, we generated a few leads from people contacting us right from our portfolio page Freelancer.com This was the first freelancing site that we tried, it seemed really popular and active so we went in head first We tried starting with smaller jobs, $100 or less, and ended up scoring a low-cost small adjustment job which ended up being an entire mess of a situation - mostly because the customer had an issue with his account and because we didn't take a look at how Freelancer charges for their services Kijiji & Craigslist In the very beginning we tried to get some free advertising going in the “classifieds” space We took a look at what other people were posting on there in the web development space, most were quick $500 or less websites that were all-in Following in their footsteps we released a few different ads at different pricepoints, listing similar packages on our website This resulted in one long-term customer relationship from a person that called us from the ad, but wanted general development services - not the package that we had advertised We also got a call or two from people that wanted extravagant websites for extremely cheap, being offered $100CAD for an entire restaurant website at one point Craigslist did not result in any leads, only Kijiji in our experience Segment 3 - Creating Projects This was a very important step for us as it gave us skills and portfolio work that we could then show potential clients We created Chrome Apps, Chrome Extensions giving us a niche area of focus Web templates and snippets have us experience with basic html and css Not only can projects potentially generate revenue if monetized but they refine and showcase many soft and hard skills such as project management and coding style A big thing for us is looking at projects as a potential revenue generators but with a worst case outcome of being a portfolio item that presents and refines our skills For us we always needed to keep the the timelines on these projects very tight otherwise we would get sidetracked and lose focus For Clicks to Riches we finished it within a week of intensive work For Html All The Things it was also only a couple weeks A project like Content Collector which has not been finished and is fully on the backburner suffered from loose timelines The chrome app projects that we did directly affected getting our biggest client Another flaw that we have when it comes to this is being hesitant to create a project: Based on how many similar solutions to something are out there Not knowing the audience well enough Web News - Updates vs Stability What do users prefer when it comes to their applications or operating systems receiving updates. Having the same version for long periods of time with no features added or optimizations made but great stability Having new features and optimizations every month or so but have the chance to lose stability An example of fairly stable consistent operating systems with minimal updates would be iOS and partially android. They usually receive one large update a year with only minor security updates in between almost like a hybrid system Windows on the other hand will receive updates almost weekly that seem to be fairly untested and large updates also come multiple times a year and have the potential to introduce massive issues like with the last large scale fall update deleting a users documents folder Updates to platforms can also cause problems such as Webflow or Wordpress releasing updates which makes features and plugins behave differently. You can find us on... Facebook | Twitter | Instagram RSS | Patreon | Spotify Medium | YouTube | GitHub  Reddit

In ihrem Podcast „Tech-Freaks“ sprechen BILD-Technik-Reporter Sven Schirmer und Martin Eisenlauer über Gadgets, Games und das weite Internet. Dabei geht es natürlich um News und Nachrichten, aber auch um ganz viel Meinung, Einschätzung und um die Dinge, die im Alltag passieren, wenn man ständig mit neuen Technik-Gagdets unterwegs ist. Heute geht es um den unglaublichen Bitcoin-Kurs, die besten Videospiele des Jahres, der YouTube-Konflikt zwischen Google und Amazon und das Ende von Chrome-Apps.

Glasfaserausbau am Limit Bis 2025 sollten 75 Prozent der Haushalte und alle Unternehmen mit Glasfaser-Anschlüssen versorgt sein, bis 2030 soll bundesweit flächendeckend an jedem Gebäude ein Glasfaser-Anschluss liegen. Mit diesem ambitionierten Ziel hat der Bundesverband Glasfaseranschluss, kurz Buglas, heute ein neues Maßnahmenpaket vorgestellt, das insbesondere praktische Probleme beim Breitbandausbau bekämpfen soll. So sollte der Staat bei geförderten Projekten mehr drauf achten, dass diese nicht dem durch private Betreiber geplanten Netzen in die Quere kämen. Google beerdigt Chrome-Apps Nach einer Ankündigung im Sommer 2016 hat Google nun die Chrome-Apps aus dem Sortiment seines Chrome-Web-Stores geschmissen. Die Apps bleiben nur noch bis Anfang nächsten Jahres funktionsfähig. Die Nachfolge sollen sogenannte Progressive Web Apps antreten. Dabei handelt es sich um Webseiten, die sich auf Smartphones wie native Apps benehmen und etwa Benachrichtigungen anzeigen können. Steam nimmt keine Bitcoins mehr an Die Spieleplattform Steam akzeptiert ab sofort keine Bitcoins mehr als Zahlungsmittel. Der Wert der Währung schwanke in zu kurzer Zeit zu stark und die den Zahlern vom Bitcoinnetzwerk auferlegten Transaktionsgebühren seien viel zu hoch, hieß es zur Begründung. Vergangene Woche habe es demnach mit Transaktionsgebühren von fast 20 US-Dollar pro Zahlung einen Höhepunkt gegeben – sie sind teurer als manche Spiele auf der Plattform. "The Surge" als bestes deutsches Computerspiel ausgezeichnet Das Computerspiel "The Surge" hat in Köln den diesjährigen Deutschen Entwicklerpreis in der Kategorie "Bestes Deutsches Spiel" erhalten. Hinter dem Action-Spiel steht das Frankfurter Studio Deck13 Interactive, das am Mittwochabend insgesamt in drei Kategorien ausgezeichnet wurde. Den Innovationspreis sowie die Auszeichnung für die "Beste Story" erhielt das Spiel Orwell von Osmotic Studios. Diese und alle weiteren aktuellen Nachrichten finden Sie auf heise.de

La vida de los servicios en Internet es efímera, nacen, crecen y o bien se establecen para luego fusionarse quizá o mueren tras recibir el abandono de usuarios o inversores. Esto es lo que hecho ahora Samsung con Milk, su servicio de música y Google con las Chrome Apps para los sistemas operativos Windows, Linux y Mac OS.

In this episode of The PE Geek Podcast, we explore the wonderful world of Google Chrome and an ever increasing collection of Chrome apps and extensions. We look at the opportunities they provide to the PE classroom and make predictions surrounding the future of the space.

The panelists talk about Chrome apps with Google's Joe Marini.

The panelists talk about Chrome apps with Google's Joe Marini.

The panelists talk about Chrome apps with Google's Joe Marini.

本期由 Dingding 主持，邀请到了 node-webkit 的作者 Roger Wang 王文睿来 Teahour 做客，分享 node-webkit 的开发故事。 node-webkit 是一个用 HTML5/CSS/Javascript 这些 Web 技术来写跨平台应用程序的开源框架，可以让我们写一份代码，同时跑在 Windows、Linux 和 Mac 上，是国人主导的在国际上也很有影响力的开源软件。在本期节目中，文睿介绍了 node-webkit 的架构和实现细节，node-webkit 的发布更新策略，node-webkit 的开源故事和未来计划。同时，也对比了一些同类的框架如 Atom Shell，Hex，TideSDK 等。 如果你对 node-webkit 有任何问题，可以在 node-webkit 的 Google Groups 里面讨论。 node-webkit Intel 开源中心 meego Light Table KickStarter Popcorn Time Haroopad Fengche Windows Gecko Webkit-GTK CEF(Chromium Embed Framework) Content API IPC Chrome Views XDK Blink App.js Chrome Apps TideSDK TideKit Hex Atom Shell sshuttle Deliver Better Product (I) Special Guest: 王文睿.

This week on Practical Chrome we look at and try and understand Native Client vs HTML5 when it comes to Chrome Apps. One is using only web based languages such as HTML, CSS, and Javascript while the other is using much lower level languages like C that we see on Windows and MAC computers. What does this mean to us? Video URL: http://youtu.be/ASxOz9kndM8 Audio Download: mp3  |  Subscribe:

Its all changed. Not a big deal but still annoying.

This week we talk Silk Road and the future of the anonymous internet, new changes to Chrome and Chrome apps, YouTube comments gain the power of plus and much more. Follow all the Don't Panic action at dontpanic.io and at facebook.com/dontpanicshow.

Schepp war nicht da, aber mit Rodney, Hans, Kahlil und Peter an Bord waren wir trotzdem beschlussfähig. Haben wir schon erwähnt, dass Rodney seit letzter Woche offizieller Bestandteil der Crew von Working Draft ist? Glückwunsch Rodney! [00:00:22] News Fullscreen-API Jetzt offizieller Working Draft Weniger Prefixes in Firefox Ab Version 16 sind Animationen, Transitions, Transforms und Gradients […]